On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:20 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > I'm arguing that a too strict an interpretation of bugfix only post -rc1 > > will damage feature stabilisation. Please think carefully about this. > > If we go out in a released kernel with a problematic user space ABI, we > > end up being committed to it forever. > > > IMO you're going off on your own tangent. Linus never singled out bsg > (far from it, in fact, since bsg was not a major LOC contributor) or > declared ABI-related fixes verboten. > > I don't think anyone wants to release a userspace ABI with problems, > since we all know that's basically locked in stone once its in a > mainline release. > > AFAICS his main complaint was he felt your push was a big honking huge > change, late in the game, that included obvious non-fixes. And it was. > lpfc was probably the biggest part of that, not bsg, and it's pretty > clear such a big lpfc update should have gone in when the merge window > was open. The [non-lpfc] cleanups were also not -rc2 material. I think you'll find that part of the complaint was addressed in the first part of the email which you didn't quote. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
